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Princeton religious scholar Elaine Pagels puts the New Testament's last book in historical context.

Next week, the Greek government will reveal a five-year austerity plan drafted by the EU, IMF and European Central Bank. The new measures include even deeper spending cuts and tax hikes. Many economists believe Greece's international lenders are prescribing a harmful and inefficient medicine.

A year after a copper mine in Chile trapped 33 men underground for 69 days, almost all of the miners battle with post-traumatic stress. An upcoming movie about the miners' experience may offer a new chance to unify them and bring back the attention they received following the collapse.

Poultry is big business in Alabama — the state is the third-largest U.S. poultry producer. Last week's tornadoes devastated the industry, destroying poultry houses and killing millions of chickens. Many Alabama farmers are now fighting to get back on their feet — others aren't sure they'll get that far.

The U.S. unemployment rate surged far higher and has remained higher than in other major industrial countries. It's now at 9.6 percent. The big shift came when American companies cut workers more aggressively than foreign firms in the face of the financial crisis.

Amborella is the first known flowering plant and, like the platypus, a genetic dead end. Selaginella's relatives are the fossils in fossil fuel. Now, scientists are studying the genes of these plants, looking for clues about evolution and compounds that might be applied to medicine or agriculture.

The heroics of the retired Army major and the men he led in World War II, the 101st Airborne's famed Easy Company, were recounted in the HBO miniseries. Winters, who had been living in rural Pennsylvania, was 92.

A Bush-era memo says training exercises involving U.S. soldiers show that waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other techniques are safe because they don't produce "prolonged mental harm." But several psychologists say you can't compare American soldiers in a training program with individuals who are involuntarily detained.

The insect is so large — as big as a human hand — it's been dubbed a "tree lobster." Presumed extinct, some enterprising entomologists found them on a barren hunk of rock in the middle of the ocean.

South Carolina has filed a federal lawsuit that legal observers say is bound for the Supreme Court, where justices could rule on the constitutionality of the landmark civil rights law.